and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

not to condemn you do I say it, for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say it -- I also am bold.

for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

I have said before, and I say it before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,